Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1887-09-23
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eessfuly applied for pension, and wrote to
the President explaining the hardships of his
case. Mr.. Cleveland responded, EXPIRE ssin g
kis deep sympathy with the veteran, emph ,siz
ing it with d check for SlOO
A. Whitehouss and George II Gordon two
young Englishmen, were hnniing together iu
Wyoming, when the former, mistaking rhe
latter for mountain lion, red fat him dis
lance of 100 yards and shot him through the
| temple, killing him instantly.
Dispatches from Darlington, Nova Scotia
report the appearance of remarkable meteor
| Thursday night 1t is described as looking a
large as an elephant, and having long tail
| attached. 1t fell into the ocean, which is re
ported as Immediately taking on the resem
blance Of a huge pot with the water boiling
1t is reported that before Governor Hill, OF
New York, left Philadelphia on Saturday il
| was decided that he would not be "A candi-
date for President, the arrangement having
| been made on last Tuesday The plan is tha,
Gov. Hill is to support Cleveland and TO be re
/ nominate for Governor of New York.
| Stlman Ills was robbed of ST., 500 in cash
at PlGmar, Mass, Tuesday. lie placed the
| package on the piano and went upstairs Soon
after a cry for hslp caused him to rush down
TO the paror, where be found bis daughter ly-
| ing unconscious upon the 6oor. with the mark
| Of a terrible blow upon her forehead. The
money was gone.
The New York Herald states til General
Roger A. Pryor has been offered retainer to
argue an appeal for the Chicsgo anarchists be-
tore the Supreme Court of the Uui,ed States,
and il is understood that he will argue the
case on appeal in Washington. Gen Pryor is
quoted as saying that the anarchists have
| easonabe chance,
| The Virginia authorities in lis created the
| connty of llIinoi. in that state. which embraced
| the territory now forming the states OF Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin,.
making the largest county ever organized -
Patrick Henry was at that time governor OF
| Virginia, and the act ma lie him also the 6rst
governor OF Illinois.
| Since the death Of Joseph Cilley, on S.tur-
day, Simon Cameron is the oldest surviving
ex-senator. He was born in 1879. and is to.
lowed by ex-senator James Bradbury, OF
Maine born in 1903 Jefferson Davis, born in
| 1903, asd Hannihal Hsmlin, born in 1909 -
Mr.. Cameron served in the Senate with Messrs.
Bradbury, Davis, and Hamlin.
Fifty-eight colored men, Of various ages
| were arranged at Jefferson Market Court New
iory, Sunday, tor gamtlIng. They were all
arrested at the Criterion and Cttsrers' club
roc ms. Justice German discharged them,
saying that they bad as a,uch right TO gamble
in their own club rooms as the m+neers of
Union League or Manhattan cluos had 10 their
| rooms.
! A dispatch from CoEeerils, Mss, says
The txo W Woodwsrd boys. who killed Archie
Douglass al his home seren miles east Of here
( last summer. ~rre tried aud q, qpitteJ before
he nf al
last. Immediately siter thr jury nd brought
| in the ve' diet OF not guilty Bob Woodward
aas married 10 the girl - hom he .ss ~, iug
TO steal when forced to Kill Doislass 40 sell
deGel se"
| Molie Johasoo, colored, emplosei 10 the
| IA mlIy OF " IN. r. " ,llismes. in Prince Grors.
county, VS., hss hecn arrested tor the murder
/ Of oue OF Mr.. Wlllisms's children, whom she
killed Tuesday With a dose Of concentrated
lye. The girl has N de full confession Mr..
| Williams 10 some way bad inrurred ihe dis
pleasure Of the girl, Who rereuged herself by
killing his child.
The trip of the steamship Ciiv Of Rome.
which arrived at New York from Liverpool
Friday afternoon. wss remark able 10 bringing
the largest number Of cabin passengers that
ever came across together. There acre IL OF
them, aud 500 in The siserage a total of 226.
| $50 persons on board during The stormy
voIage. The neI; best record for cabin pas
sengers Vas made By the Umhria t~o weeks
ago. when she troughi over 6Is.
dispatch from New York ssys Nrssr.
George 5. Scott, W. p. Cl,ds and john II
lnman have just returned from a tour Of Oh
ser'.tioa through Virginia, Tennessee and
North aud South Carolina Mr. Scot; savs
{ al S5ase If h. D.
ended, but its Industrial #sd commercial con-
diiion - Vastly better People no ionger
selling lots 10 the coun,ry for The price Of cor.
ner lots IN large cities, but there 10 a STEADY,
healthfll growth, Which 10 ibe oanda,jos OF
permanent prosperity.
The Chicago Anarchists h.ve decided tn ap-
peal 10 The Sapreme Court oi the L aitsd States
out unanimously decline to plead for ,xerniiEe
elemeney, taking The grouni that they have
done nothing Tor shieh 10 ask the pardon of
society, and that society nigh, ask their par
don. Three OF Them, whose names sre not
gwen. even oppose an appeal. TIE Defense
Association, organized for the relief Of the
murdsrers, will aid 10 securing an sppesi, and
failing In that will get up petitions pray ing
Tor pardous or . Communication OF the sentences.
Dr.. J. Haney level, Of Philadelphia, is a
Q n y
meat is the cause Of untold evils He even
thinks that regeiarisnism is the best remedy
for in:empsranoe. His theory is tha, assh-
eating men have an abnormal taste for drink.
and that II men will oajv con6ne hrmsel res
10 vegetable food the desire for drink will be
sniagonizea NO man," he SAYS. who eats
pound Of macsroni daily will become .
drunkard. What We want is . Temperance
vegetarian restaurant, where young mea may
ha han al a., -.
special session Of the fifteenth Legislative
Assem- ly Of Montana adjourned Wednesday
evening, after session of about three weeks
Probably never before has IL been the case tha,
prairie dogs and ground squirrels neees.ita ted
the case in Montana. The Legislature lss,
winter authorized bounty Of ten cents for a
prairie dogs and eve cents for ground squirrels
sud TO date the Territory has paid for 69s 97l
ground squirrels and las, 100 prairie dogs, or
a total OF over $500, 900. The bounty act has
exhausted all The money 10 the treasury.
and was running the Territory rapidly in debt
The Governor, with the permission of the
President, called special session and repealed
| the law
Ten thousand people attended the East Au-o
ra IN. " fair Wednesday to see The baby
| show. There were nearly hfty entries for prizes
but the most interesting were the Dart triple,s
Ida, Mollie and Roy, children of Mr. and Ms
Albert Dart living in town of East Ham
burg. Their aggregate weight at birth, six
and a half months age. was 81 lbs The trip
lets Of Mr.. and Mrs. c. II. Loomis of North
Bay, Oneifa County, did not arrive in time to
enter SO the Dart trio got Presiden, Clevelands s
$40 gold-piecs. The colored twins, Romeo
| and Juliet Johnson, of Pitisburg. got Gov.
/ Hills prize OF S25. Mrs John Marshall. OF
harlla, aged 81 years, presented twelve chill
dren, and took nickel plated cook stove Mrs.
John Hoat's ten children entitled each to set OF
silver spoons.
Miss Mary Tucker beautiful young woman
nineteen years of age, daughter of John S.
Tucker, of Essex, Conn, ex State Repre-
sentative and wealthy citizen, has disgra cer
her family by marrying a colored coachman in
her fathers employ. Miss Tucker became in
faipated with The cnlnrea hose Is